Globe and shade holder.



W. 0. HUMAN. GLGBE AND SHADE HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 11, 1912.

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WILLIAM C. I-IOiVIAN, OFMERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD MILLER & COMPANY, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION 01 CONNECTICUT.

GLOBE AND SHADE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 7, 1913.

Application filed November 11, 1912. Serial No. 730,545.

To all 10h 0122 2'15 722 ay concern Be it known that I, WILLIMI C. Heroin, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mcrideu, New Haven county, State of (Ion necticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Globe and Shade Holders, of which the tollmving is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved construction of globe and shade holder oi the type more particularly used in connection with the so-called inverted burners.

The present invention is an improvement over the structure shown in my Patent No. 1,029,298, and is described in detail in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming part thereof and illustrating a preferable embodiment of the invention.

In these drawings: Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of the globe support, the burner tube being detached therefrom. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through said globe support,

and Fig. 3 is a view in elevation illustrating my improved construction.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 1 indicates the main body portion of the globe holder, to the top 2 of which the burner tube is secured, said tube extending downwardly within the holder and globe usual At its lower edge, the main body portidn 1 is formed with a depending annular flange 3 having preferably an internally channeled portion extending entirely around said ange. I

The holding device comprises a one-piece spring wire bent in the middle to form a U- shaped portion-1 which projects through a slot 5 in the annular flange Extending in opposite directions from the U-shaped portion of this wire retainer, are arms 6 and 7 each of which is of greater length than a semi-circle so that the two ends o'fthe wire will overlap. The extreme ends of the wire are offset as illustrated to provide operating handles 8 and 9.

10 designates an elongated slot in the an nular flange 3 opposite the slot 5 therein, said slot 10 preferably being widest at its middle portion, with the two ends thereof slightly out of line. I

A bar 11 forming an abutment member is provided adjacent the slotted portion 5 of the flange 3, this bar, which may be in the form of a metal clip, extending transversely of said slot 5 and having its ends inserted through apertures 12 above and below said slot and clenched against the inner face of the flange 3 to securely hold the bar to said flange. This bar or abutment is inserted subsequent to the projection of the U-shaped portion of the wire through the slot 5 in the annular flange of the shade. holder so that it will retain said U-shaped projccticm in engagement with said annular flange.

The spring wire retainer is normally con tracted so that it forms a ring member of appreciably less diameter than the interior diameter of the holder. By gripping the handle ends 8 and 9 with the thumb and forefinger and'pressing them together, the side arms 6 and 7 of the retainer will be extended laterally into the channel around the inner side of the flange 3, thus affording suliicieht clearance to permit the flanged upper end of a globe to be insertedwithin the holder to a position above the arms 6 and '4'; Upon releasing the handle ends 8 and 9. the wire retainer contracts, bringing the side arms 6 and 7 into gripping contact with the edge of the globe beneath its end flange so as to securely hold the latter in place within the holder.

In my prior patent hereinbefore referred to No. 1,029,298, I retained the U-shaped projection ofthe Wire retainer in engage ment with the flange of the shade holder by forming the slot through which said projection passed with a centrally restricted portion or hour-glass contraction which was formed by bending the edges of the annular flange of the shade holder inwardly after the U-shaped projectionof the wire retainer had been inserted through said slot. I find, however, that my present construction is more ctl'cctive in retaining the projecting end of the retainer in engagement with the flange of the shade holder, inasmuch as it provides a more positive and stronger retaining abutment and is less liable to become bent or broken so as to'becoine inoperative.

What I claim, therefore, and desire to secure by Letters Patentis:

In a globe or shade holder, an annular sheet metal flange, a ring-like wire shade retaining element having a U-shaped projection, said flange having a slot formed therein through which said projection extends, a retaining bar distinct from said flange extending transversely of the slot therein, and between said flange "and the end of said U-shaped projection, said'fbar being fixedly attached to said flange to thereby retain said projection'against disengage- '5 ment from said flange, said ring-like element having its ends oflset to form operat ing handles, and said annular flange having a second elongated slot therein through wfich said handles pass to the outside of the flangen 1 "WILLIAM C. HOMAN.

Witnesses:

' ARTHUIL E. MILLER,

ALFRED DUNLOP. 

